The Augsburg Brecht Festival drives you into the city

The Augsburg Brecht Festival drives you to locate with “import brides – my veil, the henna and her tears” where theater becomes truth and overcomes any artificiality.

Although you know it better, of course, you believe for a moment, now you land right at a Turkish wedding. You sit in a bridal shop in Augsburg-Oberhausen, Ulmer Straße, a quarter that could drive up the pulse of an AfD voter, it’s fun here. Before that, the groom’s mother was already met in a hairdressing salon, now that the bride is sitting between wedding dresses, and it is the theatrical persuasiveness of the two actresses, Elif Esmen and Karoline Stegemann, who consumes you as potential wedding guest, you are powerless. The core is not at all about a wedding, but about the henna night: a kind of hen evening at Muslim weddings, in which the bride says goodbye to her family and friends.